18 Ideas for Your Garden Journal

Karen of www.GardenChick.com offers these ideas for filling your a garden journal:

1. 1. * Pictures of gardens you like
   2. * Results of soil tests
   3. * Seed starting dates, planting times, and harvesting time for your plants
   4. * Date of first and last frost for your area
   5. * Lunar phases for “planting by the moon”
   6. * A calendar for planning your plantings
   7. * Catalogs
   8. * Plants you want in your garden and their soil, sun, and water requirements
   9. * A diagram of your garden with each row labeled as to what you planted. This will help with crop rotation, and companion planting
   10. * Diagram of individual beds with plantings labeled. (Many plants die back, and you can’t remember what that is coming up next spring!)
   11. * Pictures of garden art, sheds, garden décor that you like and where you can purchase them.
   12. * Upcoming garden shows and what you want to look for/purchase.
   13. * The weather. Was it too hot, too dry, too wet, and how did that affect your plants?
   14. * Recipes for your harvest (will help you decide what you need to plant and what to do with all those peppers and tomatoes you will plant)
   15. * An envelope for receipts. My local garden center will replace a fruit tree, bush etc., within 3 years if it dies and you return with receipt and the dead plant.
   16. * Insects: The good, the bad, and the ugly, along with the birds and butterflies that visited your garden.
   17. * Before and after pictures are a must. The garden at 1 year, 3 years, etc.
   18. * Garden quotes, stickers, and of course, pictures of kids, grandkids, and pets.